The Rhode Island Republican

The late Secretary of War in a long address to the public, which occupies upwards of eight closely printed columns in the N. Y. Evening Post, has replied to the statements of Messrs. Ingham, Branch and Berrien. The address is well worthy the patient and candid perusal of every man who professes to be influenced by principles of justice, let his politics be what they may. It sheds more light upon the difficulties and embarrassments which the President has had to encounter previous to the reorganization of his Cabinet, than all the essays which the late changes in the administration have ushered into being. To say that the address is well written is but faint praise. It possesses excellencies, compared with which its superior merit as a literary composition must be thrown entirely into the background. It is a methodical detail of facts and circumstances in a manner so clear, natural and probable, as to stamp upon the whole production an indelible character of truth. It is a happy and triumphant effort in vindication of the motives and objects entertained by the President in reorganizing his cabinet, inasmuch as it clearly exposes the absurd and ridiculous reasons given by Ingham, Branch & Berrien, for their dismissal from the national councils. If any unprejudiced man can read this address and still believe that the dissolution of the cabinet was the consequence of the refusal of the above named gentlemen to permit their families to associate with the family of Major Eaton, we do not envy either his feelings of charity towards Gen. Jackson, the acuteness of his intellect, or his narrow and grovelling views of the motives which influence and actuate the mind of a Statesman. That Major Eaton was and is a deeply injured man we have no doubt; but we have never before known the extent of his sorrows. He has now told his tale in language, every word of which is eloquent with the anguish of his feelings and every sentiment of which will sink deep into the hearts of the American people. The address cannot fail to excite their sympathies and arouse the indignation of honorable men at such a relentless scheme of political aggrandizement to be consummated even upon the ruins of domestic happiness, the domestic happiness of a friend and a patron.

The address was received at too late an hour for an insertion in to-day's paper, but we shall commence its publication in our next number.